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Vibrant City V2

This 15x20'' piece depicts a cyberpunk city seen from street level, where a single winding road appears to lead straight toward a towering structure glowing at its peak.

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Between Hours

This painting captures a moment on a rainy night in Osaka, Japan, where a girl with an umbrella stands between two distinct landscapes: the modern streets, glowing with cool, blue-green neon lights, and the traditional world, illuminated by red lanterns and warm lights.

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Naivety

Middle school was a difficult time for me, even most adults I’ve talked to would agree it was worse than high-school.

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Chainmail dress 👗

I started this dress in 2023 for a school Renaissance fair and I have kept adding g on to it turning it into a dress for all my Renaissance fairs and to keep my hands busy

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Remember the Fun

My work explores loss and erasure – my recent collection is a series of paintings and installations called “Memory Loss,” which first began as an exploration of my grandfather’s dementia.

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No Entry

While this is my first project that I’ve done in oil paint, my goal was to encapsulate the paranoia in today’s world regarding personal safety by adding elements of eeriness and nostalgia.

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